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Qualification of Sandroses
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Ibrahim Al-Jallal, PhD
Director - Sandroses Geological & Petroleum Consultancies
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Kingdom of Bahrain
Ibrahim has received his PhD from Imperial College, University Of London, and his MSc. in Geology from Western Michigan University, USA and BSc in Geology/Chemistry from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
He has served 25 years in Saudi Aramco in petroleum geology related work, worked as geologist in several areas including: well site operations, fields' development, mapping, and reservoir predictions. This work involves the reservoirs of the Khuff, Arab, Fadhili, Hanifa, Unayzah and Jauf. Ibrahim has a strong background of the geology of Saudi Arabia, its reservoirs and fields, reservoir characteristics and development. He worked with Eprco Exxon research Centre in Houston as training assignment for about a year in carbonate cores, thin sections, reservoir characterization and mapping of the Arab Formation.
Ibrahim's PhD dissertation was in the Khuff Formation depositional environments, diagenesis, reservoir characteristics, development log characteristics of Khuff facies and reservoir prediction in Ghawar Field. In that work, he described about two kilometers of carbonate cores from the Khuff and more than 3000 thin sections, integrated them with logs and zoned the Khuff into depositional beds that conformed with the reservoir flow layers. He later, extended the reservoir prediction studies of the Khuff to include all Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries. He has been keen in digitizing technology and worked since 1999 in core description digitizing and was awarded a patent in 2008 on core-voice recognition digitizing device along with his colleagues, T. Dhubaib and D. Cantrell of Saudi Aramco.
For at least two years, he lead a team of sedimentologists, palynologists, stratigraphers and geophysicists to develop the first subsurface integrated geological study of the Jauf Formation North of Ghawar area and was the principal author of this report. The Aramco report title was " Jauf Formation subsurface mapping, integrated depositional model and reservoir quality, guided by seismic and gravity, a regional overview, north of Ghawar area, presented in GEO 2000."
He has held several management positions, the last two positions were the Chief Geologist of Southern area fields, including Ghawar field, and the Chief Geologist of Geological Research & Development in Saudi Aramco. He has presented and published several papers in the Saudi oil and gas fields, attached is a list of these presentations and publications.
Ibrahim has organized (as the general secretariat) the first Geosciences Conference in the Gulf (GEO 1994). He has initiated the GEO 94 while he was the president of the Dhahran Geosciences Society (DGS) in 1991. He initiated the first joint symposium between DGS and SPE (local chapter) in 1990 and represented the DGS. He represented Saudi Aramco in the ADIPEC for several years. He organized the panel on the challenges of currennt and future reservoir management in ADIPEC 2002. He initiated and organized the carbonate porosity prediction forum and called for its consortium research in the Gulf. (GEO-2004). He organized the first focused regional Khuff workshop in the region in 2007 and organized in 2009 the Paleozoic clastic gas reservoirs workshop addressing the challenges of their predictions and tight gas in the Gulf, both workshops had core displays, posters and oral presentations.
Ibrahim was involved in organizing many geological field trips in Saudi Aramco, including the Phanerozoic outcorps; he organized a Paleozoic special field trip to solve the Permian sands bodies' nomenclature in Saudi Arabia. He organized, during the Khuff workshop, two field trips, first was trip to Paleozoic of Arabia lead by Abdulaziz Abdullah bin Laboun, and the second trip to Oman lead by Dr. Oliver Weidlich.
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1. Paleozoic Clastic Gas Reservoirs of the Gulf Workshop. Challenges of Clastic Reservoir Predictions and Fight Gas Reservoirs ( Abstracts Book ), edited by Sandroses, March 2009, Kingdom of Bahrain.
2. Regional Khuff Workshop ( Abstract Book ) organized and edited by Sandroses Geological and Petroleum consultancies, November 2007, Kingdom of Bahrain.
3. "Where to drill for gas in the Khuff Formation, the potential areas for Gas in the Gulf countries presented in the Regional Khuff Workshop, November, 2007."
4. "Integration of depositional, diagenetic and seismic tools to predict reservoir quality of Khuff Formation in Eastern Saudi Arabia, GEO 2004, Bahrain, March, 2004."
5. "Integration of depositional, diagenetic and seismic tools to predict reservoir quality of Khuff Formation in Eastern Saudi Arabia, SPE Forum, December, 2003, Dubai."
6. Co-author in "Accurate reservoir characterization to reduce drilling risk in Khuff-C Carbonate, Ghawar field, Saudi Arabia, GeoArabia, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2000."
7. "Effective use of depositional and diagenetic tools to predict good reservoir quality of Khuff Formation in Eastern Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf Countries", AAPG, Cairo, October, 2002."
8. "Jauff Formation subsurface mapping, integrated depositional model and reservoir quality, guided by seismic and gravity, a regional overview, north of Ghawar area, in Press 2000", presented in GEO 2000."
9. "The regional Khuff reservoir potential in Saudi Arabia", 1996, presented at the first Saudi Earth Science Society Meeting, University of King Saud, Riyadh.
10. "Depositional Environments, Lithofacies Types and Reservoir Development of the Permian Khuff Formation" in Eastern Saudi Arabia", extracted from my PhD. presented at the AAPG International Convention-London, September, 1991.
11. "Sedimentation of the Khuff Formation and time significance in stratigraphic correlation". Presented at the SPE/DGS Symposium.
12. PhD Dissertation, "Depositional Environments, Diageneses and Reservoir Characteristics of the Permian Khuff Formation in Eastern Saudi Arabia, August 1989."
13. As a co-author, in "Lithofacies, Diagenesis, and Depositional Sequence; Arab-D Member, Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia". SEPM core Workshop No. 12 March 1988.
14. Was involved in core workshop Ghawar Arab-D Reservoir display between EPRCO and ARAMCO, AAPG-Convention 1987-Houston.
15. "Sedimentary Features of the Permian Khuff Formation: A Fossil Analog to Quaternary Arabian Gulf", presented at a conference on "Quaternary sediments in the Arabian Gulf and Mesopotamian Region", February 1987, Kuwait.
16. "Diagenetic Effects on Reservoir Properties of the Permian Khuff Formation in Eastern Saudi Arabia", the Middle East Oil Show
March 1987.
17. "Uthmaniyah Khuff-B Reservoir Study", Progress Report, September 1985.
18. "Preliminary report on Khuff-B zonation, deposition, diagenesis and reservoir properties, Shedgum-Uthmaniyah", May 1984.
19. "Petrography part" in the "Core Analysis Report, Qatif well-58 Arab-C Reservoir", May 1984.
20. "The Khuff Formation, its Deposition and Reservoir Development in some selected wells, Ghawar Field", presented at the First Geological Technical Meeting held in Dhahran, December 1984.
21. "Petrographic description, lithofacies, and a discussion on the depositional and diagenetic environments", Qatif-67, Arab-D reservoir, May 1983, later incorporated with EPRCO Core Analysis Report June 1985.
22. "Petrographic description and lithofacies, Qatif-59 Arab-C reservoir", May 1983, later incorporated with EPRCO Core Analysis Report, May 1985.
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